Unclassified road crash in Gravesham DA12 on 13 November 2025 at 14:21 involving a Kawasaki ER motorcycle
A Kawasaki ER motorcycle and a Renault Trucks lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Gravesham at 14:21 on Thursday 13 November 2025. The 23-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ER motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Thursday, 14:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ER and Renault Trucks
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40118, longitude 0.41128, in the DA12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Higham & Shorne, Gravesham, DA12 3HB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025461668272
- Council area
- Gravesham
- Police force
- Kent
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 March 1994.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 4 March 1994
16 m awayRef 1994460223521
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 30 November 1996
16 m awayRef 199646NK05804
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 10 November 1996
16 m awayRef 199646NK05378
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 3 November 1997
17 m awayRef 199746NK11181
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 11 October 2006
21 m awayRef 2006460132204
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A2 in Gravesham, 14 July 2008
21 m awayRef 2008460160037
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ER
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Renault Trucks
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ER)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2025461668272 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 2025.